Programme 2016

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Second International Marxist-Feminist Conference

Vienna, 7 -9 October, 2016

Time	Friday – Room 1: Mehrzwecksaal (MZS) Simultaneous translation English – German – English	Friday – Room 2: Ausstellungsraum
08:30 – 09:30	Registration
09:30 – 10:30	Introduction: Heidemarie Ambrosch, transform!europe; Eva Blimlinger, Director of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Nora Räthzel, Berlin Institute of Critical Theory (InkriT)
10:30 – 11:00	Room 1 Frigga Haug: Introduction into the Stream: Marxist-Feminist Theory (DE*)
11:00 – 12:30	Marxist-Feminist Theory Ligaya McGovern: Mainstreaming the Marxist Feminist Frame Jennifer Cotter: The Labor Theory of Gender Frieda Afary/Farzaneh Raji: Comparing and Contrasting Marxist-Feminist Theories Chair: Friederike Habermann	Marxist-Feminist Perspectives on Motherhood Marie Reusch: Motherhood + Emancipation = Mission Impossible? Pınar Sarıgöl: Motherhood in the Neoliberal Family Corporation Chair: Birge Krondorfer
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 15:00	European Governance Elisabeth Klatzer: Marxist-Feminist Perspectives on Economic Governance in the EU Marina Gržinić: Marxist-Feminist Perspectives from Former Yugoslavia to Neoliberal Fascist Europe Birge Krondorfer: The Question of Education and the Lack of Critique in the European Education System (DE) Chair: Ruth May	Marxist-Feminist Analyses of Racism Carmen Teeple Hopkins: Secularism and Sexist Islamophobia in Quebec and France Jelena Petrović: What does (Il)legality Stand for Today? Stefanie Mayer/Edma Ajanovic/Birgit Sauer: Gender as Symbolic Glue for Right-Wing Actors Chair: Tucker P. Farley
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00	Marxist-Feminist Political Economy Gabriele Michalitsch: A Feminist Critique of Political Economy Elmar Flatschart: Value-Form Theory and Feminism Friederike Habermann: Queering the World Altogether (DE) Chair: Käthe Knittler (tbc)	Marxist-Feminist Theory Jules Gleeson: The Byzantine Eunuch as a Pre-Modern Gender Category: a Test for Materialist Feminism Tine Haubner: Marxist-Feminist Theory of Exploitation Catia Gregoratti: Antonio Gramsci’s Feminist Questions Chair: Antje Géra
17:00 – 17:30	Coffee Break
17:30 – 19:00	Critical Theory and Marxist-Feminism Flora Eder, Fe.ory Collective:The Eclipse of Gender and Reason: Adorno and Horkheimer, Subject, and the Relation of Sex and Gender Karin Stögner: Intersectionality as applied dialectics. Sexism, Nationalism, Antisemitism Barbara Umrath: Marxist-Feminist Theorizing as a Project of Continuous Critical Engagement with the Frankfurt School Internal chairing	Diversity, Intersectionality: Practice and Theory Tucker P. Farley: Neoliberalism, Intersectionality and Lesbian-Led Movements Globally Marxist-Feminist Perspectives on Nature and Labour Ariel Salleh: Marxism and Ecofeminism Nora Räthzel: Discussant and Chair
19:00 – 19:30	Break
19:30 – 21:00	Location to be announced Film Screening: Not Yet Over (Nichts ist erledigt)   Dir.: Kornelia Kugler and Hanna Bergfors/ Systrar Productions	20:00 – 00:00: Reception and Party to Meet Vienna’s Social Democratic Women at: ega:frauen im zentrum Windmühlgasse 26 A-1060 Wien http://ega.or.at/

 

 

Time	Saturday – Room 1: Mehrzwecksaal (MZS) Simultaneous translation English – German – English	Saturday – Room 2: Ausstellungsraum
09:00 – 09:30	Room 1 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Introduction into the Stream: Feminist Organising beyond Europe
09:30 – 11:00	Feminist Organising beyond Europe: the Global South Ana González: Argentinian Feminist Movements Patrícia Trópia Vieira: Women in Brazil’s Trade Union Movement Khayaat Fakier/Jacklyn Cock: Reflections on Marxist–Feminist Organising in South Africa Chair: Antje Géra	Marxist-Feminist Theory Raphaële Chappe: Rosa Luxemburg: The Accumulation of Capital 100 Years Later Ankica Čakardić: Luxemburgian Critique of Political Economy: From the Theory of Accumulation to Social Reproduction Theory Trouble Everyday Collective (Ann Wiesental/Charlie Kaufhold): Analysing Capital and Gender Relations Using the Example of Capital Accumulation and Social Reproduction Chair: Ruth May
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00	Feminist Organising beyond Europe: Middle East Selin Çağatay: Feminist Struggles in the Middle East and North Africa Deniz Ulusoy: Oppression and Feminist Resistance in Turkey Feride Eralp: Decolonial Feminism and Women’s Organizing against War in Turkey/Syria Chair: Ines Schwerdtner	Marxist-Feminist Analyses of and in Contemporary Capitalism Ashley Bohrer: Capitalist Confinement: from Enclosures to Mass Incarceration Shannon Ikebe: Social Reproduction and the Crisis of Fordism Rebecca Carson: Indigenous Feminism and the Problem of Wave-Based Historical Determinism Chair: Flora Eder
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Feminist Organising beyond Europe: the USA Ann Ferguson: Women’s Leadership, the Right to Care and Revolutionary Reforms in the United States Kathryn Russell: Alliances among Labor, Racial Justice and Environmental Activists: Love, Solidarity and Resistance Nancy Holmstrom: The Relationship between Political Practice and Theoretical Analyses Internal chairing	Feminist Resistance against Fundamentalisms Nira Yuval-Davis: Anti-Fundamentalism, Anti-Racism and Feminist Politics Pragna Patel: Fundamentalism, Cultural Relativism and Women’s Rights in the Context of the UK Gabriele Dietrich: A Flower on the Chain or a Tunnel towards Liberation? Chair: Catia Gregoratti
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00	Theses: Re-Foundation of Marxism-Feminism  (Room 1: MZS) Frigga Haug: Introduction into Theses (DE) Chairs and Discussants: Carina Klugbauer, Angela von Kampen Plenary discussion to decide about theses for a common Marxist-Feminist Manifesto
18:00 – 18:30	Break
18:30 – 20:00	Cultural Programme 18.30 MZS: Cutting Edge, Fragment #3, Poltergeist arge blumen – a Viennese dialect translation of “les fleurs du mal” – is an artistic work community. Working from a feminist socio-critical perspective, Bauer and Lepold have developed a style characterized by elements of Butoh, intense physical expression, and involvement in contemporary issues. Together with the sound designer Andreas Wiesbauer, they will perform Fragment #3, Poltergeist, from their latest work, Cutting Edge. 19:00 Prospekthof: IN-VISIBLE-IN, a multi-media performance, especially produced for the 2nd International Marxism-Feminism-Conference 2016 in Vienna by Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki and visual artist starsky, uses common clichés and patterns in order to break and deconstruct them and to evoke multi-layered emotional spaces of association.

 

Time	Sunday – Room 1: Mehrzwecksaal (MZS) Simultaneous translation English- German – English	Sunday – Room 2: Ausstellungsraum
09:30 – 11:00	Marxist-Feminist Analyses of Work Diana Mulinari/Nora Räthzel: Three Gender Regimes in Three Countries at one Transnational Corporation Hannah Schultes/Verena Letsch: Recognition of Reproductive Workers – Battlefield or Pitfall? Chair: Nancy Holmstrom	Marxist-Feminist Organising in Europe Annabelle Bonnet: Women in the French Trade Union Movement Elisabeth Alabarce: Feminist Organising in Spain: Marianthi Anastasiadou: Marxism-Feminism/Feminism-Marxism in Greece Today: Old Obstacles, New Challenges Chair: Elisabeth Klatzer
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00	Diversity, Intersectionality: Practice and Theory Monica Quirico: Self-Government and Self-Organization Zoe Sutherland/Marina Vishmidt: Difference and the Universal in Legacies of Feminism Chair: Eva Egermann	Contested Identity and Contested Nature   Workshop with: Uta von Winterfeld, Adelheid Biesecker, Sarah Breitenbach Internal chairing
13:00 – 14:00	End of Conference – Feedback – Preparation of Next Conference
Workshops in Open Spaces: Times and Spaces to be Announced at the Conference +Eva Egermann/Doris Arztmann/Jonah I. Garde/Elisabeth Magdlener: Talking Crip with Marxism-Feminism +Feminist Section of the Critical Historical Dictionary of Marxism: Presentation of the Project, Call for Authors +Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki / OBRA – One Billion Rising Austria: Break the Chain / Dancing for Activism